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Re: Disney / Google / WSJ Attack On PewDiePie Backfiring Spectacularly - Generation Z Now Woke 

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Fri, 17 Feb 17 11:23 PM | 49 view(s)
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The Pewdiepie fiasco is a massive overreaction

http://www.businessinsider.com/pewdiepie-backlash-is-a-massive-overreaction-2017-2

It’s hard to make jokes on the internet. It just is. It’s similar to having a conversation with someone over text: It’s easy to miss tone, or sarcasm, or context.

. . .

Take YouTube star Pewdiepie. This week, everyone’s been talking about Felix Kjellberg, a.k.a Pewdiepie, after YouTube and Disney cut business ties with the 27-year-old from Sweden after a Wall Street Journal report called out several anti-Semitic/Nazi jokes made by Kjellberg, which, even according to him, were a bit beyond the pale.

The original report from The Wall Street Journal found nine videos that contained “anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery.” The Wall Street Journal found these videos and took them to YouTube and Disney, asking them for comment, and as a result, those companies decided to cut ties with him. Other news outlets reblogged The Wall Street Journal's report, and suddenly, people had the impression that Pewdiepie was secretly anti-Semitic.

But having watched several Pewdiepie videos in the past — most recently I watched him play the entirety of “Resident Evil 7” — this accusation seemed off-kilter to me, so I decided to actually watch the videos in question.

Having watched those videos, it is clear to me that the Wall Street Journal (and other news outlets by way of aggregation) reported on those videos in the same way someone could have reported on Josh Barro's tweet above. The report focused on the content of the issue in question without considering the important context surrounding it — context that makes you realize it's just a joke, not a real attack on a group of people.

I’m not here to argue the merit of Pewdiepie's videos or jokes — whether or not they should have been made in the first place, or whether or not Kjellberg was trying to make some kind of point. None of that matters.

Here’s what does matter: If you do watch those videos in their entirety — not just the clips containing the offensive material — it is clear that he is joking.

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(Entire article is at the link. Zim.)




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Disney / Google / WSJ Attack On PewDiePie Backfiring Spectacularly - Generation Z Now Woke
By: capt_nemo in POPE IV
Fri, 17 Feb 17 10:05 AM 		Msg. 20827 of 47202

PewDiePie is a Swedish web-comedian and performance artist - with over 53 Million subscribers who know he isn't a racist. He's got the largest online audience in history, comprised mostly of post-millennial "Generation Z" youth, and his also-popular girlfriend Marzia has 7 million subscribers - making them internet's unofficial first couple. PewDiePie has made tens of millions of dollars from his channel, yet he's remained humble and real throughout his ascent to internet greatness. The problem? He came out as a Trump supporter during the election, and the MSM has been gunning for him ever since.

I'm sure you're aware of what happened over the last week; PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, made a few anti-Semitic jokes meant to trigger sensitive SJW's, and immediately had his ass handed to him by Disney and Google after the soon to be failing Wall St. Journal made a national issue out of the 27 year old's antics. The WSJ also cobbled together a hit-piece video accompanying their report, which spliced together out of context footage of PewDiePie doing Nazi stuff. It's been dismantled.

Kids love the guy. They know PewDiePie. So the fact that corporate media thought they could simply gang up and wave a magic wand branding Kjellberg a Nazi was ham-handed and presumptuous. As if WSJ, Disney, Google, Salon, Slate, and the rest of the queued up MSM hit-squad could convince kids and their parents that a guy who's been speaking directly to them, unfiltered and genuine - is Hitler reincarnate.

Heil Hitlarious.

In the world of influence, PewDiePie has a lot of power. He's also woke - meaning, he doesn't buy the SJW / bleeding-heart narratives which have driven much of America's easily offended sensitive youth to retarded hysterics. PewDiePie is quite frankly un-poisoning the minds of hyper-sensitive kids raised on kneejerk identity politics; the untriggering of America if you will. PewDiePie was a threat to the MSM.

I don't remember the WSJ writing about Family Guy's Jew jokes, or Howard Stern's Hitler bits, or Louis CK's Holocaust jokes. I wonder why?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-16/disney-google-wsj-attack-pewdiepie-backfiring-spectacularly-generation-z-now-woke

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